Looks like thats what I did. But what is the exact purpose of 'cmaidad'. Is it a replacement for SMART? I think it is...But just want to confirm On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 6:40 AM, Dermot <paikkos at googlemail.com> wrote: > 2008/9/14 nate <centos at linuxpowered.net>: >> Mag Gam wrote: >>> At my university we use HP hardware exclusively. When we build CentOS >>> our Unix SA is running several HP utilities. I am wondering what some >>> of these utilities are, such as cmaidad. Is it possible to to use >>> these HP utilities to monitor for disk crashes (similar to smartd)? Is >>> anyone using native HP utilities for this purpose? >> > > I just did a round of HP patches to my DL series servers. In doing so > I went to the HP site and installed the Support Pack RPMs. This > provide a load of tool including the Compaq RAID utility (cqpacuex). > However these tools run as daemons so if you want a small footprint, > this might not be the way for you. The tools do provide a web-based > dignostics utility which also allows you to configure the host array > or in my case, the fibre attached storage arrays. > > In the past I have had to change the name in the /etc/*release file to > RedHat to install HP stuff. I can't remember if I had to do that this > time! > Dp. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >